- Welcome
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Before you start
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Register as a Postman Student
- What are APIs?
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Application Programming Interfaces
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APIs - A Digital Restaurant
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Types of APIs
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Quiz #1: What Are APIs?
- Introducing Postman
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An API Platform
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The API First World
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Getting started with Postman
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Quiz #2 Introducing Postman
- Your First API Request
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Task: Create a workspace
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Task: Create a collection
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Task: Get books from the Library API
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Request-Response pattern
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Quiz #3: Your First API Request
- Request Parameters
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Query parameters
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Task: Search books by genre
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Task: Multiple query parameters
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Path Parameters
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Task: Get a book by id
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Quiz #4: Query vs. path parameters
- Sending data with POST
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Task: Add a book
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Task: Add an authorization header
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Task: Use Postman Auth instead!
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Quiz #5: Sending Data With Postman
- Introduction to variables and scripting
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Variables in Postman
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Task: Set "baseUrl" variable
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Setting variables programmatically
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Task: Your first script
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Task: Grab the new book id
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Quiz #6: Intro to Variables
- PATCH and DELETE
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Task: Checkout your book
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Task: Delete your book
- Generating code
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Postman's codegen feature
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Quiz #7 Generating Code
- Wrapping Up
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Task: Test Your skills (main version)
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Check Your Skills
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Submit your Postman collection
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Claim your badge
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Recap
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Feedback
- Postman Student Expert | Frequently Asked Questions
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Postman Student Expert | Frequently Asked Questions
[SANDBOX/Testing Purposes] Clone of Intro to APIs and Postman
Learn the basics of APIs and how to interact with them using Postman.
Pre-requisites: none
You are starting in the right place!
There are no pre-requisites to get started - you don't even have to know what API stands for. By the end of this course you will understand:
- What APIs are and why they are crucial to modern software development
- How to use Postman to work with APIs
- How to interact with a real-world API
- How Postman helps you incorporate APIs into your applications
By assuming the role of a digital librarian, you'll get hands-on experience calling an API with the industry's leading API tooling and walk away with the confidence to start using APIs out in the real world. This course will prepare you with the essentials needed to complete the Postman API Fundamentals Student Expert certification.